The first turkey pardon ceremony started with President Truman in 1947, (however, the Truman Library and Museum disputes the notion that he was the first to do so or even if he pardoned the bird.) In December 1948, Truman accepted two turkeys and remarked that they would "come in handy" for Christmas dinner. President Trump practiced his skills when he pardoned Corn the Turkey, on Tuesday. (Besides General Flynn, I wonder whom else he will be pardoning in the near future.
Remember, it's about 20 minutes per pound for a frozen turkey and 15 minute for a fresh one.
While you're sitting around the table with your family this Thanksgiving, opine this - Americans sometimes eat as much as 5,100 today! The average person eats enough each Thanksgiving to gain 1.3 pounds. That would breaks down approximately as:
2 turkey legs (with the skin on)
6 oz. turkey breast (with the skin on)
2 cups mashed potatoes (made with butter and whole milk) plus 1 cup turkey gravy
½ cup cornbread stuffing
2 slices canned cranberry sauce
1 cup candied sweet potatoes with marshmallow
1 cup Brussels sprouts with walnuts
1 cup green bean casserole
2 crescent rolls
1 piece pumpkin pie with 1 cup vanilla ice cream
2 pieces pecan pie each with 2 Tbsp whipped cream
and 1 slice apple pie
But all that too shall pass.
Should you run out of safe Thanksgiving dinner conversation: Big Bird from Seasame Street is, of course, covered in feathers. Those feathers are from real life turkey feathers. Each feather is dyed yellow and carefully glued onto the suit.
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Just in time for Thanksgiving, Eat a Cranberry Day is celebrated this date each year. It was created in order to promote the health benefits of cranberries. (I have no idea why.)
Cranberries are ingredients in more than 1,000 food and beverage products. One of those beverages is the Cosmopolitan. Enough said.
For those of you so inclined, today is Fibonacci Day.
Once again, I suggest celebrating by eating Fibonachos!
Today is the birthday of both Boris Karloff (1887)
and Harpo Marx (1888).
And that makes this a good day.
November 23, 1959 -
American International Pictures released one of the Classic 'B' movies of the late 50s, The Angry Red Planet, in the US on this date.
The 40-foot alien monster was actually a marionette about 15 inches high. It was essentially a combination of a rat, bat, spider, and crab. Master Marionette artist, Bob Baker, was called in to manipulate the Batratspidercrab creature.
November 23, 1963 -
The first episode of Doctor Who, The Unearthly Child, premiered on the BBC, on this date.
Of the 253 episodes of Doctor Who that were produced in the 1960s, 97 no longer exist in the BBC Television Archives due to an archive purge between 1967 and 1978, during which BBC Enterprises destroyed the only known copies believing them to be of no future value.
November 23, 1969 -
The Rolling Stones made an appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, which aired on this date, singing - Gimme Shelter, Love In Vain, and Honky Tonk Woman. They were promoting their latest album Let It Bleed.
This was their sixth and final appearance on the show.
November 23, 1983 -
James L. Brooks adaptation of Larry McMurty's novel, Terms of Endearment, starring Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Danny Devito, Jeff Daniels and John Lithgow, opened in limited release on this date.
James L. Brooks received a special gift at the end of production, to congratulate him for completing his first movie. This was a book of Life in Hell cartoons, drawn by Matt Groening. Brooks was so impressed with the comics that he asked Groening to create cartoon shorts for The Tracey Ullman Show. This gave rise to The Simpsons.
Another ACME Safety Film
Today in History:
November 23, 1499 -
A young man claiming to be the son of Edward IV landed in Cornwall, England, and declared himself King Richard IV. Unfortunately England already a king, the young man wasn't really the son of Edward IV, and his name wasn't Richard.
He was in fact Perkin Warbeck, and was therefore hanged to death on this date (as opposed to having been well hung.)
November 23, 1899 -
The world's first jukebox was installed at the Palais Royal Hotel in San Francisco on this date. At a nickel per play, the machine earned nearly $1000 during the first six months of operation.
Early manufacturers of Jukeboxes never referred to them as "jukeboxes", they called them Automatic Coin-Operated Phonographs. The term "juke" is Southern US slang for dancing.
November 23, 1910 -
English murderer Hawley Crippen an American physician was hanged in Pentonville Prison, London, England, after he was caught aboard the SS Montrose attempting to escape to Britain, on this date.
November 23, 1936 -
The first edition of Life, the picture magazine created by Henry R. Luce, was published on this date.
November 23, 1976 -
Jerry Lee Lewis had been a bad boy again. On this date, he was arrested in front of Graceland in Memphis for public drunkenness, and carrying a chrome plated .38.
Looking to touch Elvis, I bet.
November 23, 1990 -
MTV banned Madonna's video Justify My Love due to its sexually-explicit content on this date.
Oh, do you remember when television was this quaint,
or Madonna was this relevant?
November 23, 2015 –
Blue Origin’s New Shepard, (named in honor of the first American in space, Alan Shepard,) space vehicle became the first rocket to successfully fly to space and then return to Earth for a controlled, vertical landing back at the launch site in West Texas, on this date.
Blue Origin developed the New Shepard to launch both commercial science payloads and humans into space. The capsule can seat six astronauts with more than ten times the room Alan Shepard had on board his Mercury capsule, Freedom 7, in 1961.
And so it goes
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